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Yes, looks like it's their Auth system that is down, so this is likely system-wide for them.

I also just got the refreshed Slack UI moments before the outage, these things may or may not be related.

According to https://status.slack.com/ everything is fine. But it's not.

All that stuff is probably hardcoded. The traditional way of building a status page.

AWS thought us that one cannot trust status pages

I got the refreshed UI a few days back, so I'd be surprised if it was related.